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This Blue Week, we asked people at different stages in their medical career, to share their personal Wellbeing Stories unique to the current context of their medical careers. Through various stages of medicine, we all face our own unique challenges and although it may sometimes...
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This Blue Week, we asked people at different stages in their medical career, to share their personal Wellbeing Stories unique to the current context of their medical careers. Through various stages of medicine, we all face our own unique challenges and although it may sometimes...
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This Blue Week, we asked people at different stages in their medical career to share their personal Wellbeing Stories unique to the current context of their medical careers. Through various stages of medicine, we all face our own unique challenges and although it may sometimes...
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The medical student is a creature of habit. Every morning, it wakes up, hoping that today will be a productive and efficient day, making fanciful goals for success. Every night it goes to sleep, having achieved none of what it had planned, self-loathing and an...
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The P word. Perspective, defined as ‘a particular attitude towards or way of regarding something; a point of view.’ This word is my favourite word. Why you may ask? Because your perspective changes the way you think about the word and it doesn’t stop there,...
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The sun comes up; it’s a new day dawning. Together with six cars full of friends we set off to Stanthorpe for the Rural Clinical Skills Trip. There was no looking back- mainly because we couldn’t, as the car was packed to the brim with...
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Gary Oldman once said, “Reality TV, to me, is the museum of social decay”. While I couldn’t agree more, I have to admit that social decay makes for great TV. From catfights to golden one-liners like “umbrella of ambiguity” or “so much chemistry it’s like...
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Remember your first comm skills session? The brief was: “Have a conversation”.
I didn’t think this would be a problem. I’m generally pretty chatty (sometimes to the grandest of degrees if there’s food involved). But I got into the double mirrored room and had 7 pairs...
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…and it was the best break up I’ve ever had.
I’ve grown up on a steady entertainment diet of Taylor Swift, teen rom-coms and Disney. Dramatic confessions of feelings are all I’ve ever known. My relationships have always been filled with soaring heights or the deepest...
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Last Friday I had the pleasure of hearing three inspiring women talk about their incredible journeys through the field of medicine. It got me thinking about the experience of women in medicine around the world and particularly those in impoverished regions. As I began to...